Hello Graham, Thanks for your "Full disclosure".
To answer your question: a *well* tuned Bacula community Director can probably handle between 1000-1500 "normal" size jobs per 12 hour backup period. A normal job is a normal Linux or Microsoft server that would include a few terabytes (say up to 10) of data/server and perhaps on the average 1 million files/server. If the data volume goes up significantly, one may need to consider multiple Storage daemons as there is a certain data throughput that a SD will support. The issues with the Director are mostly the total number of files (i.e. the catalog). A Bacula Enterprise Director can probably handle 5000 similar jobs per day. For others on this list: I have been well aware of the Burp fork since its beginning, and I have no problems with it. I have never considered it a hostile fork as is the case of Bareos. That said, there are some minor issues with the Burp fork. If you (Graham) are now planning to enter the Enterprise market or do head to head competition with Bacula or Bacula Enterprise, we should discuss. Nothing really serious and nothing to worry about. It is also curious to say that Burp "started out" as a fork of Bacula. Is there a point where a fork stops being a fork? Best regards, Kern On 06/29/2014 07:11 AM, keel...@spamcop.net wrote: > Hello bacula users, > > I'm not talking about the starship, but I am curious about how many clients a > bacula server can reasonably support, being backed up every night. > I realise that there probably isn't a definitive answer to this question > because there are so many variables involved. But if anybody has a large > reliable installation, I am interested in getting a rough idea of the specs. > > Full disclosure: I am the developer of the 'burp' backup and restore program, > which started out as a fork of bacula at the beginning of 2011. The reason > that I am asking the question is that I would like 'burp2' to be operable at > an 'enterprise' scale, and I don't have any real conception of what that is. > > Thank you. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse > Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition > Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows > Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
